Author: prupert

So, I lied and very much didn't keep this site updated. Bad me. However, I need to a place to host my next project and hopefully what will grow in to my main hobby - coding demos (Demoscene) audio and video projects, hosted online. I aim to use Processing, specifically P5.JS to learn JavaScript and … Continue reading prupert 2.0

So, whilst writing a recent post, I needed to take a screenshot from the framebuffer device. After a bit of googling, the best option seemed to be using fbgrab, that saves the content of the framebuffer as a PPM file (an image in text format that I've never heard of). It turns out fbgrab is … Continue reading How To Screenshot The Framebuffer On Raspbian

I've always been a huge fan of Raspberry Pis and I'll update this blog to show how I use them currently with a nod to how they have been used in the past. Since my kids have always wanted to know what the weather is (is it going to be windy tonight daddy.....is it going … Continue reading Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Display

So, I had totally forgotten this site even existed, yet here it is. Funnily enough I came across it after stumbling across the content held on a domain I use to own: http://www.prupert.co.uk. Weirdly, that domain seems to contain most of the content from this site, yet obviously without my permission, not sure how that … Continue reading Back from the dead

I got a Raspberry Pi a while ago (well, two actually) and have finally finished my first project with it, to make a portable music streaming device. This would have been pretty easy, but I decided to put it in an old retro 80s ghetto blaster case, namely this one, a Phillips Roller radio cassette … Continue reading Raspberry Roller

Well, that was fun. Interviewed by the BBC, got featured on BBC One (though crazy early at around 7am) and then on BBC News 24 twice. In-depth article on the BBC news website which makes the front of the Technology section (as a feature on the side) and then it makes the Home page as the most … Continue reading What A Crazy 48 Hours

(Quite) a while ago I wrote about my attempts to make my own video baby monitor. I had also written about a few other approaches as well, but they were pretty involved and complex and tended to break after a few days. Wanting to simplify the approach and make it easier to set up, I … Continue reading Build your own baby monitor revisited